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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
John Heilemann · Harper; 1st edition
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In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton - and the improbable... |
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The Chairman: The Rise and Betrayal of Jim Greer
Peter Golenbock · NewSouth Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The Chairman, a Shakespearean tale of friendship and betrayal to rival Hamlet, is the harrowing story of Jim Greer, a man loyal to a fault to Florida governor Charlie Crist, his benefactor. From 2006 to 2010, Greer served as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. In 2010, controversies... |
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Revolution
Russell Brand · Ballantine Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWe all know the system isnt working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told theres nothing we can do Its just the way things are. Â In this book, Russell Brand hilariously... |
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A Country Called Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World
Jay Griffiths · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild, Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination why are so many children in Euro-American... |
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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book |
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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Unfinished Work: The Struggle to Build an Aging American Workforce
Joseph Coleman · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The era of the aging worker is here. The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century -- globalization, technology, societal aging, and jarring economic instability -- have made later retirement a necessity for many, but those who choose to stay in the workforce are frustrated by a job market... |
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The Sociology Book
Christopher Thorpe · DK Publishing, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 352
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The Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way that we do with our friends, coworkers, and rivals? The Sociology Book profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their... |
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